Targeting Lakers¿

[Wrist_therapy74]

What are some of the tricks of the trade to Target Lakers , what lures, how deep , speed...... Etc. Any and all information appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

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[jlogger]

Cow bells with a Gambler rig. On the bottom roughly around 120-160 fow. Slow 1.5 mph or so. Just sit by your rigger and watch for a couple of tugs.

[whaler1]

Gambler rigs a few feet off bottom 120 ish feet at 2mph or less.


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[stoneam2006]

Gambler rigs

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[GAMBLER]

At this time of the year, there will be tons of smaller fish in 90-100.  Bigger fish will be in 120 - 200.  If you want lakers, you will have to travel East of Sandy Creek to find decent numbers.  1.0 - 1.8 with cowbells and spin n glo rigs are the most productive method. 

[Sk8man]

Brian probably should have named them "Laker Magnets"

[GAMBLER]

7 minutes ago, Sk8man said:

Brian probably should have named them "Laker Magnets"

[suttontroller94]

Another thing to do is run gambler rigs behind Dodgers off your dipsys and coppers asleep to help pick up extra fish!

[Laker Effect]

Hammerhead cowbells and Gambler rigs low and slow. 

[suttontroller94]

Not dissing hammerhead here at all but i will say try the Bellis tackle cowbells aswell they are lighter and more fun to fight fish against and more speed tolerant

[Laker Effect]

If I want to lighter rig I put a gambler rig behind a dodger or spin doctor

[stoneam2006]

Not dissing hammerhead here at all but i will say try the Bellis tackle cowbells aswell they are lighter and more fun to fight fish against and more speed tolerant

I've been looking at them haven't pulled trigger yet

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[JTowne]

It's funny .. before I met greenboatluke at a launch and he told me about this site ... when I was first experimenting with all this ... I went to a tackle shop that I won't name .. and asked the guy for some help with a couple good set ups for lake trout .... I was basically scoffed at... explained I was just getting into it and fish

is fish I just want to catch... said lazy people target lake trout...  

 

i never really understood that? Now that I've caught trout and salmon ... yes kings are much more action to get in ... but I don't complain about a lake trout 

 

either way ... just wanted to say that I picked a few things myself to try... didn't know the name of it .. but looking online at the "gambler rigs".. yup that's what I have .  I use luhr jenson cowbells ... just because it's what I had 

[GAMBLER]

22 minutes ago, JTowne said:

It's funny .. before I met greenboatluke at a launch and he told me about this site ... when I was first experimenting with all this ... I went to a tackle shop that I won't name .. and asked the guy for some help with a couple good set ups for lake trout .... I was basically scoffed at... explained I was just getting into it and fish

is fish I just want to catch... said lazy people target lake trout...  

 

i never really understood that? Now that I've caught trout and salmon ... yes kings are much more action to get in ... but I don't complain about a lake trout 

 

either way ... just wanted to say that I picked a few things myself to try... didn't know the name of it .. but looking online at the "gambler rigs".. yup that's what I have .  I use luhr jenson cowbells ... just because it's what I had 

If laker fishing is for lazy people, he has no idea what he is talking about.  Laker fishing is WAY more work than king fishing.  King fishing, you set your spread and cover water.  Laker fishing, you are constantly reeling in fish and resetting riggers, adjusting the riggers to keep them close to the bottom and washing the laker poop off the deck. 

[Laker Effect]

Totally agree gambler I'm exhausted after a day of lake trout fishing.

[Crestliner1850]

7 hours ago, GAMBLER said:

If laker fishing is for lazy people, he has no idea what he is talking about.  Laker fishing is WAY more work than king fishing.  King fishing, you set your spread and cover water.  Laker fishing, you are constantly reeling in fish and resetting riggers, adjusting the riggers to keep them close to the bottom and washing the laker poop off the deck.

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[Sk8man]

Most of the exhaustion comes from scrubbing the crap off the deck because it is though they are taking laxatives

[suttontroller94]

Cowbelling is for sure not for the lazy man especially with hand crank riggers  however I like resetting as fast as possible that's one of the reasons I went to bellis tackle bells aswell is because I can drop a rigger faster without the drag of the cowbells causing release to trip and having to bring rigger back up again and start over like I have issues with using luhr Jensen and hammerhead sometimes. Any brand will work but if I could have had my hands on a set of bellis tackle bells when we first started cowbelling on my boat I probably wouldve done it alot more even sooner

[Bassin Bob]

I love lake trot fishing. I've been hooked on them from age 12, now 65. I like browns landlocked rainbows etc. But Lakers are fun. Got my 2 grand daughters into it. 5 and 7. I put them on Lakers and they reel them in all day till they drop. I wear the out. The smiles on kids faces when a big 8 or 9 lber. hits the deck is money well spent and memories never to forget. They are work. But fun.

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[LakerTaker]

LT fishing is very hard work, yet very rewarding also. When targeting lake trout, I never sit down. Always working the riggers, watching the downrigger arms for just the right amount of touching bottom, hooking fish for others, etc. I usually search for wide flat bottom areas in 95 to 120 feet on Huron and spend my time going across the flat, back and forth between 1.2 and 2 mph (1.6 average) depending on the waves. Gambler rigs work and they work great. The only unknown for me that I need to figure out after I get out there is color and cowbells vs Dodgers. Depends on the day. I've had 100% cowbell days and 100% dodger days. Green has been a hot color this summer as well as white. I use Hammerhead size 5 cowbells and trash can / smoke or green Dodgers.

 

When I was young I made trips with my Dad up in Northern Ontario to target lake trout. That's where I learned about cowbell techniques.

 

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